Abdullah Azzam Brigades

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The significances of these designations include a prohibition against knowingly providing substantial support or resources to, or engaging in transactions with, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, and the freezing of all property and interest in property of the organization that are in the United States, or come within the United States, or the control of U.S. persons. (Terrorist Designations of the Abdallah Azzam Brigades, 2012) The Department of State took these actions in consultation with the Departments of Justice and Treasury. (Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (The McCarran-Walter Act), 2014)
The terrorist threat is also changing in ways that make it more dangerous and difficult to counter. Terrorists seek to destroy, incapacitate, or exploit critical infrastructure and key resources across the United States to threaten national security, cause mass casualties, weaken our economy, and damage public morale and confidence. America's open and technologically complex society includes a wide array of critical infrastructure and key resources that are potential terrorist targets. The majority of these are owned and operated by the private sector and State or local governments. These critical infrastructures and key resources are both physical and cyber-based and span all sectors of the economy.
Critical infrastructure and key resources provide the essential services that underpin American society.
The nation has several key resources, whose corruption by terrorists could cause catastrophic health effects or mass casualties comparable to those from the use of a weapon of mass destruction, or could profoundly affect our national prestige and morale. In addition, there is critical infrastructure so vital that its incapacitation...
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Riggio, B. (2014, February 19). Abdullah Azzam Brigades launches double suicide attack on Iranian cultural center in Beirut. Retrieved from Longwarjournal.org: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/02/abdullah_azzam_briga_2.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=abdullah-azzam-brigades-launches-double-suicide-attack-on-iranian-cultural-center-in-beirut
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The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which is named after al Qaeda's co-founder and Osama bin Laden's mentor, was formed by Saleh al Qarawi sometime after 2004 as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, and was tasked with hitting targets in the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories) and throughout the Middle East. Abdullah Azzam Brigade is a Sunni Islamist militant group affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the global jihad movement. The group, which began operating in 2009, was founded by

Abdallah Azzam Brigades franchise has increasingly become a noteworthy actor in terrorism. On May 8th, 2012 Thomas Nides, Deputy Secretary of State designated Abdallah Azzam Brigades as a foreign terrorist organization (Nides, T.R. , 2012). Abdullah Azzam Brigades may have only recently been added as a foreign terrorist group; nevertheless the organization has deep roots, lethal capacity, and is capable of contributing to supplementary instability in the Middle East.
Abdallah Azzam Brigades (AAB)

never-ending cycle of violence in the streets of the Northern city of Tripoli --- the flimsy barriers that have spared the country from total chaos, weaken by the day. Similarly, al-Qaeda appears to be extending its reach into Lebanon (the ISIS, the Abdullah Azzam Brigade, and the al-Nusra Front). Combine this with the fact that for the last nine months Lebanon has been in political limbo, operating without a functioning cabinet, it seems only a matter of time before the floodgates open, leading to greater

Al-Qaeda
Introduction
Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization established in Peshawar, Pakistan, between 1988 or 1989 by Osama bin laden and his teacher Abullah Yusuf Azzam. Al-Qaeda is an international terrorist network that considered the top terrorist threat to the United States. Al Qaeda is seeking to get rid of all westerns from Muslims territory and replace their own Islamic regime. They are a group of people who work to gather to plan act of terrorism against Muslim and non Muslim especially

there was an increase in car bombings and suicide attacks injuring over 200 people since November, thus, raises fears that Lebanon is being used as an arena to ‘punish the [government] over its military intervention in Syria. The group, Abdullah Azzam Brigades, linked to the Al- Qaeda, vowed to ‘ vowed to continue their attacks against Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon in retaliation for their involvement in the war in Syria’. For this reason, it is implicated that in order for Lebanon to remain safe

no single leader of the Arabs, there were several influential figures to the cause: Haj Amin el-Husseini – grand mufti of Jerusalem, Azzam Pasha – secretary-general of the Arab League, King Abdullah of Transjordan – only leader open to a Arab-Jewish compromise, and Glubb Pasha – commander of the British-trained Arab Legion.
Along with the views of King Abdullah of Transjordan, there had been talks of a compromise between the two, of which the Jews were favoring and the Arabs condemned. In 1947

mood… Nations never concede; they fight. You won’t get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps get something, but only by the force of your arms…But it’s too late to talk of peaceful solutions” (Bard 1). The Arab League Secretary Azzam Pasha said this statement on September 16, 1947, eight months before the state of Israel was established. The Arabs held this mentality in a time when Israel was not yet a fact. This trait was hereditary in the sense that it was taught to their children